Beach Time

This game is a sister machine to Cypress Gardens,
and it showed up only one month later.

The major difference is Beach Time adds Magic Line
F, so you could move all the numbers on the bingo card just
like Sun Valley.

The only other addition is that the game lets you play coins/credits to
try and improve your score before the 5th ball is shot. Cypress
Gardens only let you try before the 4th using the
stop and shop score booster feature.

This game is basically the end of the evolutionary chain
for magic square machines. One simpler magic square game -
Bonanza would be made 15 years later, and
two similar games: Touchdown and
Acapulco will appear in three years, but
the Magic Screen took over the
bingo world and made magic squares obsolete.

If you want a magic square game, the best choices would
be Beach Time or Sun Valley, depending on what you
want the Ballyhole to do. The stop and shop score booster
feature isn't all that interesting.

Corners score green 5-in-line.

magic squares games

Some of the numbers on the bingo card are are mounted
on wheels (behind the backglass), and pushing buttons
on the foot rail allows you to rotate the wheels
to rearrange the numbers into paying combinations.

A

1

9

19

4

A

9

4

1

19

The wheels have 4 numbers mounted on each. Here is
the standard layout for magic square A. The first
table shows the "home" position of the numbers, and
the second table shows the numbers rotated one position:

The 4-number squares were
initially used in the corners of the card, so people
also called the feature "turning corners".